Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-02-16

give it back to God at his call, with the
thought that in heaven, as upon earth, it
is still our own child, member of the
household still, to be counted always as
one of the children whom God hath CIV
en- US. Such love chastens and sanctifies
the hearts of the father and mother, car
ries them out beyond time and sense, and
give them hold upon the unseen. AS
things of great value always cost, IL is
worth all the sorrows to have known this
holy affection and to have treasure in
neaven.-CAicago Adva'ace.
HOW IS YOUR COOKING?
The average families, both of town and
country, do not live as we'll as they ought
to do. There is considerable amount of
over-eating and under-nourishment. The
preparations of the principal foods that
support life anu keep up the repairs of
the body, is not as good as it ought to be.
Take bread, for instance, and you will
find half the housekeepers of the country
make very poor article. Even corn
bread, in many families is soggy, heavy
mass, unfit to eat. Then the Wads of
baked dough, called biscuits, produce dys-
pepsia and bad tempers. A woman can
display her inventive genius by makinga
half dozen different kinds of bread and
rolls out of flour. Then with the corn
meal and grits she can get up quite va
riety. The country people have eggs,
butter and milk, the very basis of all good
cooking, and with the addition of sugar
they can get up an endless variety of side
dishes and desserts. Children, especially,
are pleased with variety. We do not ex-
hort you to crowd great variety on them
at one meal. That is bad taste and will
produce bad health. Grits, or hominy of
some sort, should be on every breakfast
every house in the county while the fami-
ly is seated at the breakfast table, you
would find the bill of fare about as fol-
lows: A little fried meat, coffee, biscuits,
good, bad or Indifferent, and perhaps mo-
lasses and butter. That goes on the year
round. 1t gets very mOnotonOus after
while and it is no wonder that some Of the
strong boys refuse to eat breakfast. When
working people are hungry, it is great
mistake to attempt to fill them on fried
PURE AIR.-The season of the year is
here in which doors and widows are usu-
ally closed, and the matter of pure air
becomes one of serious Importance. Du-
ring the day, the air of living-rooms is
pretty certain to be changed more or less
by the frequent opening of outside doors.
During the night, however, not infre-
quently all outside openings are tightly
closed, and the occupants Of sleeping
rooms might almost as well place them
selves for the eight or ten sleeping hours
of night in an air-tight box.
In the morning, persons who thus de-
prived themselves of life-giving oxygen,
the great necessity of life, awake unre-
freshed and dispirited, languid, pale and
weak, with headache, giddiness, no appe-
tite, and many other symptoms of the foul
air poisoning to which the system has
been subjected. This accounts for very
large part of the colds and other forms Of
physical Wretchedness of which good
many complain ut this season of the year,
and which is ordinarily ascribed to the
change of season. The system is filled
with impurities as a result of deficient OK
ygenation of the blood, and so the body
becomes in a high degree susceptible to
all causes of vital disturbance. The re.
ception of few fever germs is all.suffi-
cient to bring on a violent illness, by set
ting fire to the fever-feeding material with
which the tissues are filled as the result
of deficient air cleansing.
Ventilation of living-roOms is of great
importance at all times, but the supply
of an ample amount of fresh air to Sleep
ing rooms is doubly important during the
hours of sleep.-Health and Home.
How TO LIVE TO OLD AGE.-In order
to live to good old age, says DR.. H. G.
Wood, of Philadelphia, the several vital
organs must be approximately equal in
strength. A man Of ordinary physique,
claims the authority quoted in Popular
Science Monthly, who possesses this fortu-
nate balance of power, will in all proba-
opment has been unequal. Excessive
strength in one part is, in fact, source of
danger. An over developed muscular sys-
tenn invites dissolution, because it is "a con-
slant strain upon the less powerful organs,
and finally wears them out. Death, in the
majority of cases, is the result of local
weakness. 1t often happens that vital
organ has been endowed with an original
longevity less than that of the rest of the
organism, and its failure to act brings
death to other portions of the system,
which in themselves possessed the capa-
bilities of long life.
The fact of having succeeded in life, with
the satisfaction and comfort it brings, con-
tributes to the prolongation of existence,
while failure, with its resultant regrets,
tends to shorten it. In old age the organs
possess less elasticity to meet and over.
come such strains as can be invited with
impunity in youth. Hence the old should
be spared the strains. It is also desirable
that, as their years advance, they should
make their personal habits the subject of
careful study, and, with the help OF some
wise counselor, regulate their life in &C.
cOrdance with the changed conditions of
fhnir 10 no rfSn
larly the case with reference to diet.
BENEFITS OF A GOOD LAUGH.-Per-
haps there is not the remotest corner or
little inlet of the minute blood vessels of
the body, says the Scientific An 'icaa, that
does not feel some wavelet from the
great convulsion produced by hearty
laughter shaking the central man. The
blood moves more lively; probably its
chemical, electric or vital conditions are
distinctly modified. It conveys differ
ent impression to all the organs of the
body, as it visits them on that particular
mystic Journey, when the man is laugh
ing, from what it does at other times.
And thus it is that a good laugh lengthens
mans life by conveying distinct and
additional stimulus to the vital forces:
The time may come when physicians, at
tending more closely than they do now to
the innumerahle subtle influences which
the soul exerts upon its tenement of clay,
shall prescribe to the torpid patient, $50
many peals of laughter to be undergone at
such and such time," just as they do
that far more Objectionable prescription
pill, or an electric or galvanic shock.
meat and heavy, greasy biscuits. The
boys come in from the field, and they are
ravenous. They will bolt solid chunks
of food. The careful mother should know
something about the human stomach and
it's wants, and she should cook so as to